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Upon the cessation of hostilities Dr. Owen returned to Mobile and entered into a partnership with Dr. Edmund P. Gaines, they practicing together until the latters death some years later.

Dr. Owen is survived by his wife, two sons, Dr. C. N. and Goronwy Owen and one daughter, Mrs. Susie O. Quigley, of Mobile.

In 1859 Dr. Owen was made Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy in the Medical College of Alabama, and in 1870 Professor of Obstretrics which later position he was still occupying at the time of his death.

He became a member of the Mobile Medical Society in 1858 and was successively Secretary, President and Member of the Board of Censors, which latter position he filled for twenty-five consecutive years.

The death of Dr. Owen produced widespread grief in Mobile, where he lived so long and to many of whose people he had ministered. The scenes at Trinity Church on the day of his funeral obsequies gave strong evidence of the warmth of affection in which he was held by the people. The church was packed to overflowing and every eye was suffused with tears. Such a scene was strong testimony of the esteem in which he was held.

The editor of the Journal had known Dr. Owen for thirtyfive years and in his death feels the loss of a personal friend. No eulogy at our hauds can add to the reverence and love which the people of Mobile entertained for this exemplary physician. Beside being one of the most prominent prac. tioners in the state he was a man of great personal purity of character, thoroughly honest ane sincere. His energy was indomitable and his devotion to his patients was strong.

The death of such a man is a public calamity. His loss to the profession which he ornamented is irreparable. We in Mobile, who knew him as he was, realize the magnitude of our loss and are conscious that no panegy ric can add anything to his reputation, for he will live long in the hearts of those who knew and loved him.

THE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE STATE

OF ALABAMA.

On the twenty-first of the present month this association will convene in annual session in Talladega. The preliminary program which has been sent out gives promise of both an interesting and profitable session. The president Dr. Glenn Andrews, of Montgomery, is to be congratulated on his wise and happy selection of subjects for the regular reports. We hope that the attendance will be large and that the meeting may be one of the most successful in the history of the association.

When the great and important work which this organization has done is considered we are at a loss to comprehend how any legal practitioner of medicine in the state can recon. cile it with his sense of duty to himself not to be in affiliation with it. It has given dignity to the profession and has decidedly improved its personnel. The law to regulate the prac tice of medicine, secured under its auspices, has safeguarded the people against ignorance and incompetency, and has accomplished more to improve professional conditions than everything done prior to its organization. During the recent session of the legislature an attempt was made to nullify the beneficient provisions of the then existing medical law and but for the watchfulness and untiring efforts of the members of the association we would have the mortification of seeing the stat e endorse by legal enactment a sect in medicine. The efficient work done on that occasion by the medical organization of the state certainly should justify its claims to the endorsement and co-operation of every regular doctor in the state. All preju dice should, therefore, be laid aside and each one should feel that his fealty rightfully belongs to this organization. We feel justified in view of the record which the association has made in the past in urging all who are eligible to membership in a county medical society to become members and the reby become factors in the work which under the auspices of the state medical association is reflecting so creditably upon the medical profession of the state of Alabama.

We are satisfied that in many instan ces failure to affi

and co-operate with the organized profession in the state is due to lack of information or to misconception of the objects the attainment of which are in contemplation. Therefore, it behooves every physician in the state to properly inform him. self upon the subject, and having informed himself, we are satisfied that he will not hesitate to come over into Macedonia and help us. The medical profession of Alabama should be of solidly unified and with persistent effort, work together as one man for the still further betterment of professional conditions and the elevation to the highest possible degree of the standard professional attainments requisite to practice medicine.

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BIRMINGHAM MEDICAL COLLEGE-The ninth annual commencement of this institution took place on the evening of April 3. The following received the degree of Doctor of Medicine: James Alfred Bagley, Charles William Brasfield, William Thompson Cocke, James Ezra Cleere, John Pearl Cowman, Walter Bozeman Moorer, Manly Lamar Morgan, John Theophilus Robertson, Charles Henry Smith, James Alexander Wetson, Miles Axe Copeland, William Bloomer, William Johnson Callaway, Richard Wilmer Hawkins, John Frank Hogan, Oscar Hayden Montgomery, Bartlett Jones Massey, Henry Polk Robson, Ferdinand Hammond Turner, Porter King Tait, Wallace Bruce Smith. The program included addresses by Dr. A. P. Montague, president of Howard College; Dr. R. M. Cunningham and the dean, Dr. B. L. Wyman. The valedictory was delivered by Dr. Charles W. Brasfield, of the graduating class. The session of the college ust closed was the most successful in its history.

The Fourteenth International Medical Congress will meet in Madrid, Spain, April 23 to 30. The Committee of Organi zation invite all who devote themselves to the study of the science of medicine and who are interested in its progress in all parts of the world. The announcements which have been sent out are under the authority of the president, Julian Calleja and the secretary, Angel Fernandez-Caro.

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THE NEW PROVIDENCE INFIRMARY.

Among the recent improvements in a medical way that have been made in Mobile, we may especially mention the new Providence Infirmary which is now nearing completion. The building of which we give a picture is modern in every respect and its construction conforms with the demands of modern hospital architecture. It is under the supervision and control of the Sisters of Charity. It is situated in a beautiful residence portion of the city, removed from the noise and bustle of the business section. The operating room was devised with a view of securing absolute asepsis and will have every im. provement made necessary by the demands of modern surgical science. While it will have a regular medical and surgical staff, patients will have at all times the privilege of selecting their own medical attendant. In connection with this institu tion there will be an enlargement of the present training school for nurses, which for the past ew months has been carried on in the old infirmary. We feel that our city is to be congratulated on the establishment of an up-to-date hospital to which physicians can send patients with the assurance that they will get every attention that skilled nursing can give.

MEDICAL COLLEGE OF ALABAMA.-The commencement exercises of this institution occurred at the Mobile Theatre on Friday evening, April 3. The degree of Doctor of Medicine was awarded to the following:

L. T. Hutto, of Abbeyville, Ala; M. W. Dupree, of Westmoreland, Ala.; R. B. Warren, of Geneva, Ala.; B. M. Ken. drick, of Luverne, Ala.; W. P. Dickinson, of Mobile, Ala.; A. M. Ferguson, of Latham, Ala.; L. P. Esslinger, of Huntsville, Ala; H. H. Mason, of Butler, Ala., W. W. Stevenson, of Roanoke, Ala.; J. A. Thorne, of Franklin county, Ala., A. F. Lee, of McKinley, Ala.; J. W. Dorsett, of Wilmer, Ala.

The Pharmaceutical graduates were: J. W. Fielder, Jr., of Benton, Ala.; T. F. Taylor, Mulberry, Ala.; Stephen F. Hale, Mobile, Ala.; William Noriis Owen, Mobile, Ala.; Clarence E. Farrish, Nellie, Ala.

The salutatory address was delivered by Mr. James M. Austin and the valedictory by Dr. B. M. Kendrick The report of the dean was, in the absence of Dr. George A. Ketchum, read by Dr. H. A. Moody. It indicated a successful session.

Total number of medical students, 131. Total number of students, pharmacy alone, 14. Number of medical students studying, 145; same, pharmacy also, 6. Beneficiary students, sent by the state, paying no lecture fees, 52. Post-graduate students, 4. Students from Alabama, 134. From Mississippi, 7. From Florida, 3. From Iowa, 1. Total number of students, 145. Graduates in medicine 12, in pharmacy 5, total 17.

The Bush prize for highest standing in class was awarded to Dr. L. T. Hutto.

In this issue of the JOURNAL we begin the publication of a series of clinical lectures delivered to the class of the Medical College of Alabama by W. R. Jackson, M. D., Professor of the Principles and Practice of Surgery in that institution.

The Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts has rendered a decision in the suit of Fairchild

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